The Rush: Trump wants the NFL to begin on time, but he may not have the final say

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April 5, 2020 at 11:53 PM

In a meeting with the commissioners of several sports leagues, President Trump encouraged the NFL to begin its regular season on time. The NBA named Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnet to the 2020 Hall of Fame class even as the league formulated plans to cancel the rest of the season. For a deep dive on the NBA2K Tournament and ESPN’s plans for a star-studded round of HORSE, check out Dunk Bait at Yahoo Sports NBA. PLUS Sonny Gray, Mekhi Becton and Shaquille O’Neal appear on today’s installment of The Rona Diaries.

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- Wait a minute, Gronk is covering Mojo!

- 1! 2! 3!

- Why Gronk is the 24/7 champion! Rob Gronkowski just pinned his best friend, Mojo, to win the 24/7 title!

JARED QUAY: It used to be if Gronk was in "The Rush's" cold open, it was because him and Tom Brady won another championship or something. But TB12 lives in Derek Jeter's mansion, and big Gronk works for Vince McMahon. Wrestlemania gave Americans desperate for sports two nights of something pretty close. The Undertaker came back from the dead, and Andrew McIntyre defeated Brock Lesnar to earn a championship belt. But will when we get something a little less scripted depends on who ask?

Yesterday, Donald Trump met with the commissioners of several major sports leagues. He commended them on the charitable work done by the teams and players but also suggested that they return to work as soon as possible. For the NFL, that means playing games in front of fans as early as September, which sounds great, right, California Governor Gavin Newsom?

GAVIN NEWSOM: I'm not anticipating that happening in the state.

JARED QUAY: Fine. NFL don't need California. We only got like three teams there, and two of them are trash.

- Tr, trash?

JARED QUAY: Point is, we all want the NFL to start on time, none more than you boy, especially since it looks like basketball might not be coming back at all. It was a weekend of extremes for the NBA. Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, and Kevin Garnett will headline the best Hall of Fame class ever. But it's also reported that teams and players are working on plans to cancel the rest of the 2020 season.

DARTH VADER: No!

JARED QUAY: Meaning the only basketball in our near future is star-studded games of horse that the NBA and ESPN are reportedly working on.

- Let her reign!

JARED QUAY: And the "NBA 2K" tourney where Pat Beverly still finds time to trash LeBron.

- Uh-uh.

- Oh, what?

- No.

- Oh, my god.

- Yeah, this ain't video game James. He got some years on him now. He can't just be jumping everywhere now.

JARED QUAY: For more of that, hit up Yahoo Sports NBA on Twitter every Monday morning. My boys LaJethro Jenkins, "King" Josiah, and Zach, Zach, Zach tear it up on those days. They get all ball even when they're is none. Speaking of all ball, Manchester City defender Kyle Walker is under investigation after hiring two escorts last week, which is one way to get through a quarantine.

But not every athlete's having as much fun as Kyle. Some are curling their pets like Olympian Kat Holmes, and others are throwing around tires like Aaron Donald. But if it's on the internet, it's going to be in the Rona Diaries.

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- Elbows tight, elbows tight. Sprint it through. Yep, chest up, chest up. There we go.

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